How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The opening of our film shows a young adult male, who is the main protagonist in our film, grieving for his partner who has died. The whole film opening follows him and his remorse however flashbacks show the girl who has died, the audience are unaware that this is the case though at this time. We decided to use the female character in her late teens as the one who has died and a male character in his late teens as the main protagonist. We decided to use this age of the characters as normally at that age they should be out socializing and having fun whereas the male character looks as though his life is more or less over because of this, this would have a greater effect on the audience as they are around that age so it is easier to relate to. In films such as ‘Ps I Love You’ the main protagonist in this film is a female, and this usually is the case in most dramas similar to ours, this is because it is normally easier to show a females emotions as men stereotypically don’t outwardly show theirs. However in our film it is the female who has died and we are following the emotions of the male, this breaks stereotypes of men being strong and not showing their emotion,

Bringing a twist to our film and making it seem more interesting and appealing to audiences. The breaking of stereotype could bring interest from the teenage male audience, however it is aimed mainly at females as they are more into psychological and emotional films. Our film doesn’t exactly portray a particular group of people, it just looks at a death and how it can effect the life of a certain person, it shows a negative representation on young love and how it can ruin someone s life if things go wrong which in this case they obviously have.

Ethnic stereotypes could be pointed at in this film as it is focuses on a white couple, if one of the partners were of another ethnicity it would break typical stereotypes, however this isn’t the case in our film.

People usually relate graveyards with elderly people however in our film the dead person is a teenage girl, thus making everything seem more upsetting because she has obviously died very young. This is where the connection with the teenage audience comes into place as the focus is around a girl a similar age to themselves. As there is a young blonde female as the leading role this can also bring lots of attention to this film, as say if it were advertised for example, audiences may come just to see her in the film.